From the course: SharePoint Designer 2013: Custom Workflows
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Counting items in a dictionary - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint Designer 2013: Custom Workflows
Counting items in a dictionary
A dictionary might also be a collection of items that are like items. Rather than a mix of different types of rates for example, I could have a dictionary where the first item in it was a particular employee. And then had their name for example, Greg Verden and the amount was Greg's rate. So that I could have a collection of hourly pay rates for employees, the next person in there would be Janet Hayes and it would have Janet's rate and so on. So when I have a collection of like items, or unlike items, one of the things that I can do, is I can iterate through the dictionary and count the number of individual items that are in there. So this is another core action and it's Count Items in a Dictionary. So, I'm going to say then, Count Items in the Dictionary Rates. And it's going to output this to a variable. And you know that variable can be count, which just got created of course by Sharepoint or I can add my own. I might like to even maybe modify the name of this so that instead of…
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